Tableau 2018.1 – Analytics Game Changer

Tableau 2018.1 – Analytics Game Changer

With Tableau 2018.1 the analytics company have announced significant changes to their product lineup and pricing structure, as a reseller, services partner and trainer for the complete range of Tableau courses I could not be happier with the changes announced this week. I believe these will be a game changer enabling much larger scale deployments in a more cost effective and efficient manner. Here are the key points I like:

The addition of Tableau Data Prep (at no additional cost to the old Desktop Professional price) adds significant data preparation capabilities, this closes the gap on one of the biggest criticisms I heard from potential and existing clients, whats more like Tableau, it makes data prep easy!

Role based pricing replaces package based pricing, simpler, closer to client roles, especially

Tableau Viewer role – Most organisations want to make Tableau available to a large user base but as the pricing has been based on more complete functionality this impacted cost, in truth the bulk of end users are consumers not analysts but pricing previously reflected more complete capabilities. The viewer role provides access to the magic Tableau does at a price that reflects the role as a consumer instead of analyst or developer, bring on the numbers!

Their are loads of others but for me these are the 3 that really stand out and CHANGE THE GAME!